James Cockie
James Cockie (died 1573) was a goldsmith in Edinburgh. He helped mint coins in
The surname was also spelled "Cokie" and "Cokkie", "Cokke", or "Cok". The family were prominent in Edinburgh as goldsmiths. He was born around 1535, and his father was also called James Cockie.
Career
James Cockie and
Cockie married John Arres′ daughter. She was a sister of James Mosman′ wife – Marion Arres. Through his marriage, Mosman obtained the house on Edinburgh's High Street which is now known as the John Knox House.[4]
At the
Cockie and Mossman joined
Mossman and Cockie helped Kirkcaldy pledge the queen's jewels, which had been stored in the castle, for loans.[8] Cockie, as archival evidence shows, was particularly involved in receiving silver and minting coins in the castle. The coins minted in the castle were finer than those minted at Dalkeith by the opposition.[9] The types included the eighty pence piece or half merk, known as a "six and eight." In June 1572, the English soldier and Marshall of Berwick William Drury sent one of Cockie's half merks to William Cecil as a novelty.[10]
After the castle fell, Cockie, James Mossman, William Kirkcaldy of Grange, and his brother James Kirkcaldy were hanged on 3 August 1573.[11] Their heads were displayed on the castle walls.[12]
James Cockie and James Kirkcaldy were tried together at
Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, the author of a chronicle, mentioned that he minted coins in Edinburgh castle, "ane that struik the cunzie callit Cok".[14]
A family of goldsmiths
In 1581 his son, also a goldsmith, also named James Cockie was restored to his inheritance by the Parliament of Scotland.[15]
William Cockie or Cokky, goldsmith, had a house in the
The Earl of Mar's ewer
The
Another ewer of silver or tortoise-shell with silver mounts, said to have been a gift to the Earl of Mar from
A silver cup made by Henry Thomson used at Forgue has Cockie's assay mark as Deacon in 1563. The cup was presented to the church in 1633 by James Crichton of Frendraught.[22]
References
- ^ Bruce Lenman, 'Jacobean Goldsmith-Jewellers as Credit-Creators: The Cases of James Mossman, James Cockie and George Heriot', Scottish Historical Review, 74:198 part (October 1995), p. 160.
- ^ Jean Munro & Henry Steuart Fotheringham, Edinburgh Goldsmiths' Minutes (SRS: Edinburgh, 2006), p. 23.
- ^ James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1913), pp. 368, 438.
- ^ Harry Potter, Edinburgh Under Siege: 1571-1573 (Stroud, 2003), p. 62.
- ^ Gladys Dickinson, 'Report by De La Brosse and D'Oysel on Conditions in Scotland: 1559-1560', Miscellany of the Scottish History Society IX (Edinburgh, 1958), pp. 93-4.
- ^ Gladys Dickinson, 'Report by De La Brosse and D'Oysel on Conditions in Scotland: 1559-1560', Miscellany of the Scottish History Society IX (Edinburgh, 1958), p. 123-5: Joan Murray & J. Murray, 'Notes on the Vicit Leo Testoons of Mary Queen of Scots', British Numismatic Journal, 50 (1980), p. 82.
- ^ Harry Potter, Edinburgh Under Siege: 1571-1573 (Stroud, 2003), p. 62.
- ^ Bruce Lenman, 'Jacobean Goldsmith-Jewellers as Credit-Creators: The Cases of James Mossman, James Cockie and George Heriot', Scottish Historical Review, 74:198 (1995), pp. 159-177.
- ^ Michael Lynch, Edinburgh and the Reformation (Edinburgh, 1981), p. 145.
- ^ Harry Potter, Edinburgh Under Siege: 1571-1573 (Stroud, 2003), p. 97: Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 339.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1571-1574, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 602.
- ^ Thomas Thomson, Historie and Life of King James the Sext (Edinburgh, 1825), p. 145.
- ^ Robert Pitcairn, Ancient Criminal Trials (Edinburgh, 1833), pp. 45-6.
- ^ Aeneas James George Mackay, Chroniclis of Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 308
- ^ The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2020), 1581/10/124
- ^ Marguerite Wood, Extracts from the Burgh Records of Edinburgh, 1604-1626 (Edinburgh, 1931), p. 47.
- ^ Bruce Lenman, 'Jacobean Goldsmith-Jewellers as Credit-Creators: The Cases of James Mossman, James Cockie and George Heriot', Scottish Historical Review, 74:198 part (October 1995), pp. 160-1.
- ^ George Dalgleish & Stuart Maxwell, The Lovable Craft 1687-1987: An Exhibition to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Royal Charter of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh (NMS: Edinburgh, 1987), p. 17: Rosalind K. Marshall, Mary, Queen of Scots (NMS: Edinburgh, 2013), p. 104 no. 180.
- ^ David Erskine, Annals and Antiquities of Dryburgh, and other places on the Tweed (Kelso, 1836), p. 130.
- ^ James Maidment, Letters and State Papers during the Reign of James the Sixth (Edinburgh, 1838), p. 38.
- ^ The Bishop's Castle and Handbook of the Archaeological Collection (Glasgow, 1888), p. 77 no. 301.
- ^ Thomas Burns, James Macgregor, Alexander J. S. Brook, Old Scottish Communion Plate (Edinburgh, 1892), p. 549.